I just made Logstash available for installation on Windows through the brilliant command-line installer Scoop. This makes it very easy to install, upgrade or uninstall Logstash on your system. I earlier posted a similar instruction on how to install Logstash’s companion products Elasticsearch and Kibana in Windows in my employer’s blog.
Here’s how you do it.
If you haven’t already, install the command-line installer by running the following in Powershell:
iex (new-object net.webclient).downloadstring('https://get.scoop.sh')Then, add the extra definitions list (known as ‘buckets’ in Scoop):
scoop add bucket extrasThat’s it for the installer part. Finally, install Logstash:
scoop install logstash --globalThat’s it! To prove that the installation went well, run Logstash with a simple configuration:
logstash -e 'input { stdin { } } output { stdout {} }'You can then go on to install Logstash as a windows service, and start it
logstash_service install -configPath path\to\logstash.conf
logstash_service start